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New Super Smash Bros. Details Explained On Video

Super Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai went on video to give a deeper look at the upcoming four-player fighting game for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS.

Sakurai lends some additional insight to the three new fighters in the video below. The Villager from Animal Crossing can pick up just about anything, from Mario’s fireball to Samus’ charged shot, and throw it back at his attacker. He can also dig a hole that immobilizes an enemy that steps in it, setting them up for an otherwise hard to connect with (but highly damaging) bowling ball drop.

Mega Man carries over his Mega Upper shuryuken-like attack from the Marvel vs. Capcom series, and deploys his robotic dog Rush as his air-jump boost. Most of the Robot Master weapons that Mega Man uses work as expected, but the iconic Metal Blade can stick into the ground and be picked up by Mega Man or another fighter for use as a one-off weapon.

According to Sakurai, the Wii Fit Trainer “uses various moves that she thinks will contribute to her health.”

I thought the WFT was odd at first but her move set looks really really cool. So far, for me, the new SSB is looking pretty damn awesome, judging by the little changes we've been shown. And there's more to come! I'm so pumped, I've been missing Smash Bros. like crazy.

After having recently beaten Mega Man 2 for the first time, I'm even more excited to see Mega Man sharing screen time with the other characters from the NES generation. I'm still hoping they retain Sega and Konami's contributions from last year.

Villager looks like a lot of fun and will bring a lot of laughs.
Mega Man looks like one of those characters you'll hate unless you're the one playing him.
And Wii Fit Trainer...What the hell? Such a weird idea, yet so frickin' awesome.

So, my only question is how do we play the awesome multiplayer that we all know and love. Only one gamepad. No Gamecube controller hookups. I don't think I knew one person who played Brawl with the Wii Remote instead of a Gamecube controller.